Teaching styles and achievement: Student and teacher perspectives

Cristina Lopez-Mayan and Ana Hidalgo-Cabrillana ()
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Ana Hidalgo-Cabrillana: Departamento de Análisis Económico, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

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Abstract: Using data from a Spanish assessment program of fourth-grade pupils, we analyze to what extent using certain teaching practices and materials in class is related to achieve- ment in maths and reading. We distinguish using traditional and modern teaching styles. As a novelty, we measure in-class work using two di erent sources of information -teacher and students. Our identi cation strategy relies on between-class within-school variation of teaching styles. We nd that modern practices are related to better achievement, specially in reading, while traditional practices, if anything, are detrimental. There are di erences depending on the source of information: the magnitude of coecients is larger when practices are reported by students. These ndings are robust to considering al- ternative de nitions of teaching practices. We obtain heterogeneous e ects of teaching styles by gender and type of school but only when using students' answers. Our nd- ings highlight the importance of the source of information, teacher or students, to draw adequate conclusions about the e ect of teaching style on achievement.

Keywords: Students and teacher reports; Test scores; Teacher quality; Modern and traditional teaching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I21 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 53 pages
Date: 2015-02
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Working Paper: Teaching Styles and achievement: Student and Teacher Perspectives (2015)
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